Whether death will remain the ultimate consequence of growing old remains to be seen.
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Forty years of well-honed investing instincts makes Ab Nicholas believe this latest bull market is growing old.
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Such a mouse could demonstrate whether it is possible to avoid growing old.
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But how do you prevent folk from growing old and, thus, requiring care?
Equally unsuccessful was The Golden Palace, an ill-considered spin-off from The Golden Girls, the popular sitcom about four women growing old gracelessly.
Elisabeth Cornwell, of the university's perception lab, then used "ageing" software to reproduce the natural effects of growing old on skin texture, hairline and hair colour.
His subjects are taken, in the essayist's tradition, from the familiar things of life: sport, growing old, name-dropping, taking a nap, popular songs and so on.
It's a warm and wise collection of observations about growing old that Ms. Lustbader has culled from friends, clients and 30 years' experience as a gerontological social worker, professor and writer.
Industry appeals that the arsenal is growing old, that potential adversaries are catching up, that jobs will be lost and that contract terms are too onerous have all fallen on deaf ears.
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Until the mid-1980s, America and Europe also both had stable populations, declining fertility rates and growing numbers of old people.
Medicaid spending has soared in recent times (up 63% in the past five years) thanks to rising health inflation, growing numbers of old people and the long-term decline in employer-provided health insurance.
That was back when he was 15 years old and growing up in Norway.
And education options for 14 to 19-year-old was growing but it expected fundamental changes with more collaboration and less competition.
With the new fund, the 40-year-old is growing from a one-man shop to a larger operation by hiring two staffers.
Growing human tissue is old hat, but being able to measure activity inside flesh is harder -- any electrical probing tends to damage the cells.
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How exactly the money will help the preservation effort is not yet known, but a growing number of the old buildings are being done up by private entrepreneurs.
There is a growing recognition that the old rich world cannot take its prosperity for granted that it will be overtaken by hungrier powers if it fails to deal with its structural problems.
When executives like the 42-year-old Weiner were growing up, the theory was that companies provided a career for life.
In the meantime, the world will have to meet its growing demand for artemisinin the old-fashioned way, from nature.
This is because its main objective is to assess the impact of the faster-growing developing world on the old rich world.
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Ms Bernard is just one of a growing band of the "old old" - or fourth generation as they have been dubbed.
Bernie Mullin and his rapidly growing four-year-old company, the Aspire Group.
In 2007, LCD Soundsystem released "All My Friends, " a seven-and-a-half-minute club epic that explored the universal fear of growing up and getting too old to have fun.
Strong consumer demand for the latest and greatest mobile gadgets is creating a growing need for recycling options for old devices.
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The bottom line: Globalization cannot be taken for granted, especially in a slow-growing world burdened with debt and old and new animosities that undermine domestic and international trade.
In the old days the faster growing part of the company (which in this case will continue to go by the name Abbott) might have redirected that dividend cash to fuel growth.
And although it is true, as loggers argue, that extracting old, slow-growing trees and preserving their carbon in expensive furniture may represent a net sequestration opportunity, high levels of wastage make the argument less convincing.
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Meanwhile, Dr Marion Lyons, head of the vaccination programme for PHW, told BBC Wales of worries about the growing number of cases in the old county of Montgomeryshire, where 50 have been reported recently in Welshpool.
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